When Samuel Ashmore Creelman was born on 18 November 1820, in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, John Creelman, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Rutherford, was 24. He married Eleanor Cox on 6 March 1845, in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1845. He died on 11 May 1870, in South Branch, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 49, and was buried in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Scottish: probably an occupational name derived from Middle English crel ‘large wicker basket, creel’ + man, probably denoting someone who used a creel for catching or storing fish.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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